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Configuring Foreman in the terminal

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This is part of the Foreman tutorial series. Be sure to refer to the first tutorial if you have not already.

Set up hammer variables​

Create a *.yml file for to save credentials:​

~/.hammer/cli_config.yml
:foreman:
 :host: 'https://foreman.internal.virtnet'
 :username: 'admin'
 :password: 'password'

Protect the password:​

chmod 600 ~/.hammer/cli_config.yml

Set the organization:​

hammer organization update --name "Default Organization" --new-name "internal.virtnet"

Finally set hammer variables:​

hammer defaults add --param-name organization --param-value "internal.virtnet"
note

This was done for ease-of-use. It is not necessary in order to use hammer. However proceeding commands will be omitting specifying the eg. organization.

Setting up GPG keys​

Create a product:​

hammer product create --name "CentOS 7"

Download and store GPG Keys​

First, download the CentOS 7 GPG key:

wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

Then store via hammer content-credentials:

hammer content-credentials create --content-type gpg_key --key "RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7" --name "RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7"

Now let's do the same for EPEL 7 GPG key:

wget https://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7Server
hammer content-credentials create --content-type gpg_key --key "RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7Server" --name "RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7Server"

Create Repos​

CentOS 7 base repo:​

hammer repository create --product "CentOS 7" --name "x86_64" --content-type "yum" --download-policy "on_demand" --gpg-key "RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7" --url "http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/" --mirror-on-sync "no"

CentOS 7 extras repo:​

hammer repository create --product "CentOS 7" --name "x86_64_extras" --content-type "yum" --download-policy "on_demand" --gpg-key "RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7" --url "http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64/" --mirror-on-sync "no"

CentOS 7 updates repo:​

hammer repository create --product "CentOS 7" --name "x86_64_updates" --content-type "yum" --download-policy "on_demand" --gpg-key "RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7" --url "http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/updates/x86_64/" --mirror-on-sync "no"

EPEL 7 repo:​

hammer repository create --product "CentOS 7" --name "x86_64_epel" --content-type "yum" --download-policy "on_demand" --gpg-key "RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7Server" --url "https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7Server/x86_64/" --mirror-on-sync "no"

Sync Repos​

You can sync the repos using a small loop:

for i in $(seq 1 4); do \
  hammer repository synchronize \
  --product "CentOS 7" \
  --id "$i"; \
  done
note

These will take a while to sync.

Sources​